The Nunes Memo

Following the modus operandi of Trump administration communications, the public release of the Nunes memo has nothing to do with truth. It’s not a good faith effort to relay accurate information to the American public; it’s about sowing distrust in the Mueller probe — a contentious investigation that has already seen charges brought against four members of the Trump campaign and is reportedly tightening around the president’s inner circle.

While the memo was a secret, it was claimed to be either a national security threat that would either expose the intelligence community to untold damning risk, or a smoking gun that would expose FBI and Democratic corruption. The memo itself, while not any of those things, does expose major civil liberties concerns, potential abuse of the administrative court system and a tangled web of partisan infiltration into the daily operations of the FBI.

Following the modus operandi of Trump administration communications, the public release of the Nunes memo has nothing to do with truth. It’s not a good faith effort to relay accurate information to the American public; it’s about sowing distrust in the Mueller probe — a contentious investigation that has already seen charges brought against four members of the Trump campaign and is reportedly tightening around the president’s inner circle.

While the memo was a secret, it was claimed to be either a national security threat that would either expose the intelligence community to untold damning risk, or a smoking gun that would expose FBI and Democratic corruption. The memo itself, while not any of those things, does expose major civil liberties concerns, potential abuse of the administrative court system and a tangled web of partisan infiltration into the daily operations of the FBI.